From: David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:35:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating CVS-style patch headers with git-diff
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=_YdTsvFboQAj447SUtcxrVhM18QkvSVdpvdMJ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2vd1za0af.fsf@igel.home>

On 8 January 2011 15:21, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Well, any one of those goals, really.  I just want to generate a patch
>> that CVS won't barf on
>
> What does "CVS won't barf" mean in this context?  CVS does not operate
> on patches.

Sorry about that, that's poor wording on my part.  I don't mean "CVS
won't barf" -- I meant that GNU Patch can still apply the patch
without the meta-data referencing git still.  I think though this
"--no-prefix" option might just do it.

David